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So this is only useful in wormholes? That seems rather limited.

Are there any other changes? Or just the yaml update? (Mostly asking so I know if a full conversion run is needed, or just a point update)

Edit:
Just in case that sounded ungrateful: \o/ Thanks!

Honestly, for 1 mil LP I kind of expected this to have better bonuses (Defense wise) Instead of just 4% Armor resistances. Also this ship class (SOE in general) should be available to all players, not just Armor users.

Also due to the low amount of Lowslots, your not looking at a very good tank if you want any DPS. As mostly this ship will be used for PvE, you would think it would be made more viable for missioning.

(I mean really whos going to use a 3 billion ISK "Battleship" hull in PvP? realistically (Besides Goonswarm) "especially" when it's tank is so weak?. You want this for exploration... and it's suposedly logi support, yet it's going to die so fast in a WH (PVE) it wont have time to rep anything. And in PvP....... Yea No.

I mean seriously CCP..... Really....

It should contain the following "Suggested changes:"

Slot Changes:

Highslots - 7
Midslots - 6
Lowslots - 8

--- For a decent Armor tank (with sufficient DPS) you need a minimum of 7 Lowslots. 8 is prefered on Mission / PvE ships.
--- For a decent Shield tank you need a minimum of 6 midslots (Currently this is what the ship has).

Armor:

Amarr BS Bonuses:

* 4% bonus to Armor resistances (Per level)
* 7% Bonus to Repair Amount of Armor Repers (Per Level)


Caldari BS Bonuses:

Shield:

* 4% Bonus to Shield Resistances (Per Level)
* 7% bonus to Shield Booster amount (Per Level)


Galente BS Bonuses:

* Remain the same


But you say that's 3 ship type Bonuses?... So? "It's SOE and Costs 1 MILLION LP" (Or 3 Billion + ISK) Thats 3 times as much as any other Faction ship pirate or otherwise, and the cost of a fraken Dreadnaught!). It had better damn well be worth it. This bennifits both veterans and Newer players, if your cross faction trained you get max bonuses to shield and armor. If your a newer player you still get a tank bonus whether you play armor or shield.

This also makes it worth the price tag.

And currently.. well... It isn't.

Some might say my change sugestions ar a bit OP.... Well... if I'm paying the same price for a BS, as I would pay for a dreadnought.... Well.... It should be OP (For it's ship class). Not worse then a regular T-1.

Why would you pay 1 mil LP or 3 billion ISk for a ship that's worse then most T1 BS's?

I wouldn't.

All of this.. and yet because of it's crap tank, it will die to a single SB...... Unlike "ANY" other T-1 BS fit with he same price tag. You forget this ship is worth more then a Dreadnought. ISK wise because of the High LP cost. (1 million LP). Take that into account do you really think anyone is going to take this out of highsec? Or even undock in such a shiny suicideable target?

Wait... Don't change a thing.. nvm.... Shiny easy kills incoming.

How much are you buying Dreads for, and where can I get one?

The ships sell for less than 2 billion. the last dead I bought was over 2.5

I think the main thing people who are raging so hard about are forgetting is that this is a LOGISTICS ship capable of over 100k EHP, about 600 DPS (with drones at a range of 100+, no lasers), that has the capacity to remote rep the equiv of 6 large reps. Comparatively that's over a 1.5x of a Capital repper, more if you use T2 reps. It's a "mini carrier," in a sense, and should be supported like one.

As a solo ship, the Nestor is absolutely terrible, no questions asked. The key thing is that in numbers, this ship becomes absolutely devastating. I've been playing with fits for weeks, constantly tweaking and tinkering for whatever I can feel is acceptable for its role and purpose. Sure, if I wanted raw DPS and damage application, I'd use a Dominix (also maintaining to Armor doctrines); I won't argue with you there.

In any case, the design I'm looking most intensely at right now goes something like this:
4x M4 or T2 Large Remote Armor Reps
2x T2 Drone Links for control range
1x Auto Targeter (for +3 targets) or Large Energy transfer

Some mix of the following:
Omni Directionals
ECCMs
Large Cap Batteries for some neut reflection
Cap rechargers

Also some mix of:
1600 plates
ENAMs
Drone Damage
Cap Relays
DC

Basically I'm looking at upwards of 100 sensor strength, about 1.5-2x cap armor rep equiv, all while bringing around 600 DPS that can be easily assigned to any other fleet member. A small gang with say, three of these would be very difficult to overcome. Of course we wouldn't just use three and no support, these things are going to be primaries just as readily as a carrier would be. Bring a geddon or two for neut and yet more drones assignable to your FC or anyone unjammed. Bring an Eos if you want to add a few more sentries to the fray and some armor/info links as well. There are lots of options available. You can't only look at the Nestor's raw numbers for a single trait and use that as a comparison to specialized ships.

Personally, I happen to like the prospect of our Logistics pilots being able to apply damage. In my opinion, while we can certainly run sites with T2 Logis and some domis and complete them with minimal isk on the field, I'm of the preference of faster completion and fielding ships capable of fighting back should the INEVITABLE occur. Let's face it, this is EVE; ships blow up. I'd rather go down slugging it out in ships that are ready for a fight than sitting on my ass just waiting for someone to finally primary me. We're all here itching for the "good fight," the memorable one, the one you talk about with your corp mates every now and then who were on your wing when it happened. I don't want to be in the carrier that got bhaalgorned into oblivion that sat there in triage with no cap to do anything. I don't want to be in the little logistics cruiser that got nuked out of existence the moment a dozen or two ships jumped to grid, looking at my new pod in Empire space knowing all my friends are about to join me and there's nothing I can do.

TL:DR
The nestor is a fleet ship. Using is by itself is stupid. Using just two of them is probably also borderline stupid. In any case, I'll reiterate that it's a LOGISTICS ship that can bring substantial DPS and range to the grid. Further, being a battleship hull, it'll even allow you to get creative in your emergency refitting in ways of micro jumps, spectrum breakers, use of micro jump deployable, and so forth, all options unavailable to carriers.